Fact Fiend – The Hidden Details of the Zombies in 'Dawn of the Dead' Nobody Noticed



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34 thoughts on “Fact Fiend – The Hidden Details of the Zombies in 'Dawn of the Dead' Nobody Noticed”

  1. I would dearly love to see a Wiki Weekends episode on the old Phantasy Star games by Sega. Not the MMOs, the old ones on the Master System and the Genesis/Mega Drive.

    Or Shadowrun. Just, like… in general.

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  2. My favorite zombie movie moment is in 28 weeks later, when David Carlyle and this lady (i forget who played her), are in this farm house, top floor and they are cornered. He jumps out the window to save himself.. leaving her for dead.

    Dark.. it's like damn dude that is heartless

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  3. Maybe I’m committing heresy here but I always preferred return of the living dead over dawn. I love both but return is such a favourite movie of mine and I know it’s a cult but I still feel it doesn’t get enough credit

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  4. Probably my favourite zombie moment is from an episode of the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy where Billy bakes cursed brownies that causes the dead to rise. But it's literally EVERYTHING that is dead, including a moose that was haunted, a row of sausages (that got eaten by a zombie dog), and a zombie roast chicken that chases them with a grenade

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  5. Where did you get the idea that the "walking dead" aren't the zombies? Official or not, it makes no sense. Whereas the zombies are mostly walking and dead, and generally called walkers because they're still walking, the non-zombies aren't dead yet – they're infected, yes, but still living at that time. You might as well claim we're all dead because everyone eventually dies from a condition we all already have called mortality.

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  6. Savini's so good because he was combat journalist in Vietnam. He says the camera was a shield between him and the carnage of war… he cane back and made "Dr. Tongue," a massive dummy/puppet!

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  7. About the zombies learning: Day of the Dead (1985) gets into that a bit, with Bub. He's able to do a few things he "remembers", with some coaching. He's really the highlight of that movie.
    Also, pro tip: 28 Days Later isn't the sequel to the Sandra Bullock movie 28 Days. Lesson learned.

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  8. One of the strangely saddest scenes in a zombie movie for me is in the Dawn of the Dead remake. The scene where the guy they have been talking to on the roof across from the mall gets attacked and they don't know if he is ok. Then he comes up on the roof to write on the sign. Then he holds it up and it is just smeared with blood and no words. It shouldn't hit me as hard as it does, but it gets me every time.

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  9. I don’t recall what title it was, but in a movie, a zombie in a suit is seen from the back, and the suit is cut open at the back like a hospital gown, with his bare ass popping in and out as he shuffles along. This was a zombie from a funeral because the corpse isn’t dressed in actual clothes, but basically an apron that resembles a suit since the body isn’t expected to be moved from the coffin.

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  10. I always was amazed by Savini's process of making horror makeup. He's a very creative guy. I played The Last of Us, and I think it was because I was familiar with cordyceps, I never got scared of the setting. In fact I found the setting to be completely unbelievable. I did like the story, but the Infected always made me laugh at how absurd it was. I saw a few episodes of the show as well and laughed even harder. Especially on how the fungus spread. That episode had me shaking my head on how dumb it was and trying to sound smart.

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  11. The "Funeral Zombie" is an interesting one, as Savini revisited the concept in his own remake of Night of the Living Dead in 1990. One thing that would make someone's appearance as an escaped funeral corpse that wasn't done in 1978's Dawn was that funerary garb is often split at the back, especially shirts and jackets. I can't say whether it was budgetary issues or ignorance that lead to the missing of this little storytelling clue in Dawn, but 1990's Night had a zombie right at the beginning stumbling out of his split clothing, marking that zombie a one from a funeral.

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  12. My feeling with Project zomboid, as a game of it progresses the world so to speak "Dies" with time the roads get fucked up all the windows will be smashed from zombies and people and trees and plants will grow where they shouldnt be

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  13. The "Tongue Zombie" from Day Of The Dead you mentioned was nicknamed "Dr. Tongue" by Savini and his crew, and was actually just a 'bust", manipulated via puppetry and animatronics. The name is spot on, and is also believed to be a reference to the SCTV character of the same name, played by Jon Candy.

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  14. Savini also played Sex Machine in From Dusk Till Dawn 😂 he was incredible in that movie. His dickand balls gun was one of my favourite features in a movie ever.
    Plus his effects are so legendary. Love that guy.

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  15. As a former movie zombie (Cockneys vs Zombies) they now do a zombie school, and the better you do, the more prominent they'll make you. Along with the makeup department covering you in goo lol

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